First, I guess the ban on EVE posts has been lifted? Or did this get fast-tracked because Mittens was not directly involved? I mean it only took a few hours to report on this item, while it took a few days to cover the biggest MMO player event of the year, and even then it was poorly done. Maybe it’s just Matt Daniel grinding hard? Or maybe he slipped this piece by the editors, as his opening would suggest?

Either way, the final paragraph is quality stuff. Glad Matt is vigilantly watching the story as it develops. Maybe he’ll come to the conclusion that, just maybe, CCP employees are also trying to slay some monsters and can’t login, so decided to have a little fun with everyone’s frustration? God forbid anyone jokes about anything in the super-serious realm of gaming.

19 Responses to Massively editors taking the day off

I have to say though that it is still common practice for old hands to make sure they have a long skill in place any time CCP does a big update to EVE. CCP has its own reputation of servers being down for extended periods. Thing have been better of late, but you can bet that people will remind them of this should they falter.

But I don’t see this as CCP claiming to never have issues. I just see it as CCP saying to EVE players that they can play EVE while they, and likely CCP themselves, wait for D3 to actually work for most people.

To the casual observer, you seem to have something of a crush on Massively because you devote a blog post to them once or twice a week at a minimum. Is it a traffic thing? I don’t know how that all works.

I’m not sure where the nerd rage comes from when it comes to those guys. There are worse gaming sites, and there are better.

I feel kind of sad that some writers actually get snarky and ,with a stupid fucking grin on their face, make a joke about ccp getting not the same amount of money then blizz.

In what fucking world is it ok to be forced to play a singleplayer game online and instead of a beating the worst you get are some jokes about your company while the majority not only buys your shit but goes as far as defends you for your practices.

In the world of software theft prevention.
They get to validate everyone who plays the game, and they can shut down your paid venture at any time at their whim.

In other news, Diablo 3 is “meant” to be played up to 4 player over battlenet. They feel anyone who plays Diablo 3 solo would be an abberation on the order of solo starcraft players or world of warcraft players (both games with arguably strong solo game-play and shallow multiplayer game-play).